Assange: no hero of the Left

Above: screen grab taken from the X (formerly Twitter) account of WikiLeaks of Julian Assange on board a flight to Bangkok, Thailand, following his release from prison It is good that Julian Assange has been freed. It is good on purely humanitarian grounds: he'd spent more than five years in Belmarsh high security prison and …

Yakoob – the candidate who jokes about domestic violence.

Regular readers may remember a previous post about Akmed Yakoob, the independent candidate backed by George Galloway and the Morning Star, standing against Labour's Shabana Mahmood in Birmingham Ladywood. Yakoob, a very wealthy criminal defence solicitor, has no record of left-wing or labour movement activity. His website profile (now, it seems, unavailable) said: “He's become …

The “TikTok lawyer” and misogyny

Yakoob: proven misogynist who put a woman's life at risk One of the main arguments you hear from people backing various (supposedly) “left of Labour” candidates is that they want to feel good about the person they’re voting for. Some “independent” candidates appear to be decent individuals with some record of left wing and/or labour …